The titular ‘devil daggers’ are your weapon of choice here, eschewing the typical shotguns, rocket launchers and machine guns of the genre. Feeling intimately familiar yet new at the same time, this retro action game will have you retrying over and over to try and last just that little bit longer. Take that essence and make an arcadey survival shooter with it, and you get Devil Daggers. Imagine classic Doom and Quake resuscitated for the modern age and distilled down to their purest essence. Definitely worth a look if you’re up for a laugh and something a bit unconventional. The cartoonish characters you’ll meet along the way look reminiscent of the design of Thirty Flights of Loving, but despite also being an experimental game in its own right it’s a much more structured and less abstract experience in comparison.
